Police pull over car going 100 mph and find mother delivering baby

A British police officer was convinced the speeding car he and his colleagues were chasing after on a highway outside Portsmouth, England, must have been a stolen car.

“We…put our lights on to flash it down. But it kept going at the high speeds,” Sergeant Simon Goss told the Portsmouth News. “We boxed it in, forcing it to stop, and when it did the driver got out and we thought he was running off.”

But the driver wasn’t a thief trying to escape. Rather he was a determined grandfather-to-be driving his daughter to the hospital and she was in the final stages of labor.

Colin Ellmore, whose car had reached speeds up to 100 mph, ran around to the backseat where he helped deliver his daughter’s baby.

“He shouted something about a baby,” Goss said. “When we got to the car we saw the baby in the man’s hands. I have never experienced anything like it before.”

Tiffany delivered Lola Mia Rose along the M275 in Portsmouth. The baby was 6 pounds, 4 ounces. Her partner, Steven Read, their seven-year-old son, and her mother, in addition to her father, were all packed into the vehicle.

When Colin picked up his daughter, she said she felt as if she needed to push. On the wild car ride, her water broke. When the police spotted the speeding car, Tiffany felt the baby starting to come out.